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Su&manr.—This tribe is now reduced to some 12 families, who are found
at Sar-i-Pol in winter and who in summer move about the plain of Dinavar.
They have an artificial language of their own.
Sar-i Pol-i-Zohab (the head of the Zohab bridge) usually known as Sar-i-
Pol.—A village of 60 houses, with a caravanserai on the right bank o£ the
Halwan, 29 miles from Kerind. There is a telegraph office here.
Sheikh an. —A village 20 miles north of Zohab. It is compo-ed of three
or four hamlets, the most important one being situated at the mouth of a
mountain gorge. The others are higher up in the mountain. Its name is
derived from two Sunni saints whose tombs are here (these, surmounted by
their white cupolas and embosomed in orchards, form a very picturesque object).
Sheikhan numbers all told, 100 houses. Close by are some ancient sculptures.
Firan y Yaran and Zardeh. —In the mountain? to the north of the road to
Zohab.
Yaran — Population, Jaffs; religion, Sunni; maliyat, 70 tomans.
Zardeh. —population, Aliuliahi; language, Kandulei.
Baba Yadgar-i-Russein, one hour fromZiideh. Imamzadeh, two houses.
There are always many pilgrims and people in refuge here. Elevation
1,405’35 metres.
Kalleh Sabzi. —Pers’an frontier post on the road between Kasr-i-Shirin
and Khanikio numbers about lU houses, under the son of Shir Khan, Samsam-
ul-Mamalek.
Kasr-i-Shirin -^Latitude 34° 30' 6 V N. Elevation 2,130 feet (Pozario).—*
A village situated on the light bank rf the Hulwan river. It has some 100
houses and bazaar with 30 shops. Provisions are plentiful, Here are a
telegraph office and a cqst un-house. The place of late years has been greatly
improved. The Petroleum Company, who are working at 3 farsakhs
. distance, have had houses built for their staff in Kasr-i-Shirin. The Govern
ment House is built of stone and on a hill to the south-west of the town and
is meant as a stronghold in case of attack. Kasr-i-Shirin is 103 miles distant
from Kermaushah.
Zohab. —Latitude 34° 35' 22 v N —A small v llage of some 30 houses
situated on the ruins of an extensive town. Of this place Sir H. Rawlinson
writing some 50 years ago said : ‘‘the town of Zohab was built 100 years ago
by a Turkish Pasha, and the Government continued to be hereditary in his
family till the conquest of the Pashalik by the Persians, The capital was
surrounded by a mud wall, and may have at first contained about 1,000 houses.
Emm its frontier position it has been exposed to constant spoliation in the
wars between Turkey and Persia, and is now a mass of ruins with scarcely 200
inhabited houses/’
The Persians say that during the war under Mohammed AH M rza Zohab
furnished to the Turks 1,0 0 horsemen clad in chain armour.
Of the district of Zohab Pawlison said : “It is bounded on the north
west by the course of the Piver Dial i, on the east bv the mountains, and on the
sooth by the stream of Halwan. It formed one of the 10 pashaliks dependent
upon Bagdad until about 60 years ago, when Muhammed Ali Mirza, prince of
Kermanshah, annexed it to the Crown of Persia. By the treaty concluded
between Persia and the Porte in 1823 it was stipulated that the districts
acquired by either party during the war should be respectively surrendered and